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This no electricity tiny house on wheels is actually better than Section 8 housing. You stand under your skylight in front of your coffee maker on the left, with its plug in your left hand. You place your toaster on your right, with its plug in your right hand. Then you command: "Make coffee and toast." The appliances say, "How." You say it doesn't matter and get more free batteries which you aren't charging, knowing there is no chance you will ever have a wife, kids, visitors, friends, or a comfortable environment.

This gets more ridiculous as you try harder to explain it. The problem is, you aren't capable of explaining it. If you ever intend to try this "lifestyle," you need to acquire a ton of knowledge you evidently don't have. I have no idea what she is paying, but if we use your number of $500/month, that is hardly what you characterized as "virtual non cost." Do you know what a solar panel looks like? Do you know what a skylight looks like? They aren't the same thing. She has a skylight which she uses as a hatch to get to her roof. It shows up many times in the video. There is no solar panel, nor any mention of one. Know why? Because she doesn't have one, and one wouldn't come anywhere close to supplying her needs. Not close and not cheap.. Your theory of what it would be like if she were to "go off the rv lot" is equally ignorant. She has no electricity, so she would need to either run a generator or use a DC system charged by her tow vehicle, which by the way would have to be huge because this is one ridiculously heavy piece of... In addition, you seem to think propane is some magically cheap, efficient fuel. It isn't. It is considerably more expensive and less efficient than either electricity or nat gas. That's why people never choose it if they have a choice. She would need a water supply, and a place to dump her gray water system, something she has to do at her rv park as well, but she never mentions. You probably don't know this, but you can't simply dump them out. Worse, where the hell would she put this thing other than an rv park, and from my experience, most decent rv parks would never allow that thing in their boundaries? Put it at a "friends house" per your suggestion? Not a chance in hell anyone would let that thing sit around outside their house for long, and let's not even talk about code issues.

I have an RV. A Starcraft AR 16bh. I am extremely familiar with this "lifestyle," as you put it. The difference between you and I is that I understand what she has and what is going on, and you don't. Fees for RV lots vary, but I usually stay at Virginia state parks, and the cost is $30/night for what she is doing. That's $900/month. She is probably getting some kind of monthly rate and a mortgage or rent may be more expensive, but your characterization that it is a "virtual non cost" is ridiculous. In case you doubt it, at the 2:46 mark of the video she states: "I am staying at an RV park in Oregon." At the beginning of the video where she shows the construction, she is using a trailer chassis. That's what RV's use, and that's what people who make their own RV's use. You and she can call it a "tiny house" till the cows come home, but it's an RV. It has a hitch for towing and it has wheels. The bad part is that it is a grossly overweight RV for what she has. RV's are a lot nicer. I expect the "partner" she mentioned at the beginning, who is no longer with her figured that out early on and fled the thing. You claim: "U do realize her tiny house is self sufficient?" Again, completely false. It is hard for me to find a way to explain to someone that when you have hookups for water and electricity, you are not self sufficient at all. The hookups are there because she needs them. You claim: "She uses solar and propane for energy." No she doesn't. She has no solar other than windows. She uses an ac hookup for energy. If you consider windows solar energy, that's your business. She certainly uses propane and wood. Anyway, if people want to live that way, its their business, but be honest about it. To be self sufficient, if you want electricity you have two choices. You can put up a lot of solar capacity to charge batteries, or you can use your vehicles charging system to charge the batteries. Otherwise, pull up to at least a 20 amp ac source and plug in, which is what this woman is doing. There are no great secrets to this.

The story speaks often of that extremely suspicious Tehran-Damascus-Caracas flight originated by Iran Air in about 2007, then dropped by them and picked up by Venezuelan state owned airline Conviasa. I remember Chavez announcing the start and when asked why the hell anyone would think this was a sound business decision he stated that there were lots of Iranians who wanted to visit Venezuela. Absurd. Started out as a once/week flight. When they landed, they wouldn't go to the terminal and have passengers go through the normal customs/immigration process. They would park at a remote spot on the north side of the ramp. Nobody know who was on, and you could not buy a ticket. Evidently, passenger reservation calls were routed to cell phone in Argentina. Same when they left. Passengers bused to the plane. Never went through the terminal like everyone else. Everybody thought there was something untoward going on. I tried to find out where the crew was staying, but nobody knew. One night I was going south and I heard the flight check in on a South American air traffic control frequency. I called them and asked them to call me on air-air freq/. which we all monitored. Of course they never answered. Lot more to the story, but it was speculation by folks who lived down there.

A "camper fee" is renting the space. It is "rent." That's how she has those electrical and water hookups. They are provided for fee RV parks, which is where she is. Her "tiny house" is an RV. You can call it whatever you want. It has wheels. She tows it, and it has inputs for electrical and water. The video is from an RV park. She may have built it, but it is an RV. Lots of people do.

Maybe you haven't figured this out, but between the two of us, that lady is the only one paying rent, and I don't buy oil either.

No sweat.

No, nothing obvious. The com is a pilot and his backseater talking to each other. There are two inaudible words, and I can't make them out. But the best way to figure out what this is would be to talk to them, because again, FLIR targets are usually really distored.

Regarding that F18 HUD video, for what it's worth..... When watching or tracking something in FLIR mode, you are not actually seeing the object. You are seeing processed heat source data. Often times objects are greatly distorted.

The cost has nothing to do with whether it is green or not. Propane is not nearly as efficient as natgas, and it certainly isn't "green" nor sustainable. Burning wood is absolutely not "green," and it's an uncomfortable heat. What you have "discovered," and misnamed it minimalist, is the RV lifestyle, and it has been around for a century. The travelling woman, (the one with "Ventura Highway" in the background), is literally living in an rv in an rv park with rv electrical and water hookups. Thousands of people do it, and with far more efficient rigs than that thing she is towing around. If she was not in a park, and totally self contained, it would be called "boondocking," but she isn't. Go to http://www.irv2.com/forums and see if you recognize anything. Nothing you have ever posted in this thread backs up the claims you made in the third post of this thread, regarding how cheap green energy is. Your claim that someone threw up a solar panel and collects rain water and therefore has "no utilities" is crazy, and repeatedly throwing up links to wood burning propane users is meaningless, not green, not efficient, not comfortable and certainly not for a family. And by the way, you mentioned in your post with that link that she has "eliminated her rent." That is absolutely not true. She is paying for those RV water and 20 amp service hookups in any RV park she stays in. Guaranteed. She just didn't tell you about it. Done with this nonsense.

Do you have friends who can help you? This is another link to someone who has nothing to do with green, sustainable energy. Do you actually understand what those terms mean? Again, as your other link, she is using propane and wood. Do you get that? The void between what you post and what reality is, is vast, but here is a start. Reducing the amount of square footage you use is not "green," when you are using propane and wood to solve your heat issues. Evidently, since you've made that claim twice, this concept exceeds you. Good luck.

An absolutely bizarre post; the massive blanks between sentences notwithstanding. Way too much to comment on, but as a start, this nonsense of a one unit solar panel indicates gross ignorance, and it isn't the first time. As a guy who has looked at this for a long time, and it takes just a second, you don't get any kind of efficiency with a solar panel. It takes a lot of solar panels and a lot of storage capacity to hold what is realized potential. Evidently, you don't know that.

And when you ever come up with any reasonable proof that it is "is so much cheaper," those who follow this stuff may listen. Your claim, so far, seems to be that those who do pay attention to this this issue are not smart enough to interpret the existing data. I doubt you have ever made these decisions. I have, more than once, and you are foolish.

Nobody needs any videos on green energy. Everybody knows about it. But.....If anybody wants to know what is really going on on a day to day basis on home energy considerations, http://www.greenbuildingtalk.com does a pretty good job.

And you're totally wrong. I had a geothermal in my last house, and this one framed in a manner that if solar became cost effective I would be ready.

Is this a joke? You don't need anyone's talking points. You simply need to know what is available, what it costs. and what output it provides. It's all out there in completely objective reality. This couple isn't "green" at all. They are burning propane and wood. But, what a couple! She's referencing their propane tank and she asks if it's a 1 or 5 gallon tank, and he corrects her that it's 20 pounds. He tells how much he prefers "land" to a house then complains about how much it was costing him to take care of the land. About mid video he abruptly corrects his clueless estimate on land size. They tell us their regular house got so filthy that they went through a vacuum a month or something, then the genius goes off on a Dyson commercial. I quite watching when she pulled that slimy growth on his chin and claimed that their "paradigm shifted." What a couple of dopes.

I'll suggest two. I have spent a lot of time outside this country, roughly half my professional life. Nashville and Munich. If you took the Buffalo attitude and lived in some kind of Nashville/Munich combination, you'd have everything.

Its gets more efficient the more people you have, so calculating it for one would make it all the more senseless. You may not have figured that out, and I'm not going to responsible for your education.

I am not "going nuts with energy use." I've installed a hot water solar in the house I lived in in California, and have followed the solar voltaic industry for years. I also run the HVAC energy use at our church, remotely, from my house. I pay attention to this stuff. I don't think you have any idea about this issue. It started with your friend installing a solar panel, and has gone down hill from there. You are in over your head.

My ideology? Please. Stop. When I built this house with a garage that faces true south, I had the garage roof framed in a manner that would support a solar system. It requires additional load capacity. I also had a chase built in to accommodate the wiring and battery system and inverter. I am extremely aware of how much it costs. To date, it is not competitive. The average American household consumes about 12 kwh/year. In my case, the best current estimate I have to be off the grid, which I have no intent of doing-but for arguments sake, is 40 panels and about $38k. The guy who lives near my church just put a 24 panel array on his roof. It doesn't come close to providing his total electrical need, but does a good bit of it. I am certain you don't know what is involved, or what it costs. In absolutely no way is it cost effective-yet.

In the post from you I quoted, you stated "he has no utilities." It is extremely expensive to ever get close to an off the grid solar system, and if he "installed a solar panel," indicating one, he isn't close. Just the components necessary aren't anywhere near making a single solar panel a wise choice. I and I'm sure many others are quite familiar with the systems, capacities and costs, and it is simply not financially competitive. Without the high subsidies paid throughout the world, it would be much worse. In theory, solar panels can last 20 years, but the efficiency of the panels, storage, inverters falls every year, and they have a host of other efficiency issues. Wind isn't close to practical either. Using a rain water system for a home is a lot more complicated than it seems as well.

Your friend has no women in his life either. Seriously, there is no way to generate enough electricity from a single solar panel to survive, unless you live like the Unabomber, and he wasn't subscribing to an internet service of Netflix, per your friend's claim. Surviving on rainwater alone is another very suspicious claim. Green energy is not "so cheap." It is heavily subsidized. Getting cheaper, but not nearly competitive with normal utilities.

Si. The 17, 21 and 23. Operation Constant Peg. Tonopah Test Range. It was an extremely well kept secret until declassified and books written about it.

And they were quite a disappointment. The Mig 21 was OK, the Mig 23 was a piece of trash.

For what it's worth, the US did indeed acquire Soviet fighters, and had them for years. Not for reasons of launching some false flag operation, but to exploit them and expose US fighters to them. Quite a secret that went on for years.